Islay, Kildalton Chapel Burial Ground, Kildalton 4
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Islay, Kildalton Chapel Burial Ground, Kildalton 4
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kildalton Old Parish Church
Canmore ID 319631
Site Number NR45SE 3.06
NGR NR 45804 50830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319631
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kildalton And Oa
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (June 1982)
(4) Thin roughly rectangular slab of schistose epidiorite, 0.61m by 0.34m in maximum dimensions; incomplete at the foot. It bears a ringed outline cross with rounded sunken armpits and a long shaft.
Visited by RCAHMS June 1982
Measured Survey (1982 - 1983)
RCAHMS created measured survey drawings of the following stones from Kildalton, in addition to the great cross (1):
Early Christian stones (2), (3) and (4) and cross-base (5); and (24), described as 'probably post-Reformation'.
The 1:10 drawings were published at 1:15 (RCAHMS 1984, figs. 212B-E, 215A). At the time (2) was in the NMAS, (3) and (4) were at the Museum of Islay Life, Port Charlotte, and (5) and (24) were in the church.
